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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. STSdb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	41.21
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#363	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#327	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

SAP

STS Soft SC

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2011

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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