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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. StarRocks vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.starrocks.io

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

SAP

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2010

2020

2018

2011

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.3, June 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 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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Implementation language

C++, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Any that supports .NET

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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