DBMS > SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

1998

2020

1987

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

0.9.3, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

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

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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