DBMS > SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2010

2014

2020

2023

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

0.5, April 2021

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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