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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. Splice Machine vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

splicemachine.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Splice Machine

Tencent

Initial release

2010

2013

2014

2013

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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