DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare SAP HANA and YugabyteDB with PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Oracle.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score50.61
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score3.31
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperSAPYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20102017
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20232.18, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
YugabyteDB Managed is the fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB. Get started quickly, and effortlessly ensure continuous availability and limitless scale of your cloud native applications.
Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemsAppliance or cloud-serviceLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresSQLScript, Ryes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
SAP HANAYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
» more
Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
» more
Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
» more
Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesCData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
SAP HANAYugabyteDB
Recent citations in the news

The Power of Collaboration: SAP Celebrates Innovation Award Winners and Opens Submissions for 2024
1 September 2023, SAP News

SAP Announces Successful Deployment of SAP S/4HANA Cloud by Accuray Incorporated
29 August 2023, SAP News

CyberTech Systems and Software Limited: -September 21, 2023
21 September 2023, Marketscreener.com

SAP Evolves for Next-Gen Enterprises
18 May 2022, InformationWeek

AWS’ 7 New Cloud Storage Products; NetApp, Oracle, Cloudflare ...
19 September 2023, CRN

provided by Google News

Yugabyte Announces Keynote and Expert Speakers for the Fifth ...
25 August 2023, Business Wire

YugabyteDB 2.19: Bridging an Application's Journey from Lift-and ...
12 September 2023, Business Wire

PostgreSQL with Built-In Resilience and On-Demand Scale — Is ...
22 September 2023, ADT Magazine

Yugabyte adds multiregion Kubernetes support to YugabyteDB 2.18
24 May 2023, InfoWorld

vitagroup Selects Yugabyte to Underpin Patient Health Care ...
22 August 2023, Business Wire

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

SAP BW HANA Consultant
Trinity Technologies, Remote

SAP MDG S4 HANA - Remote
Mindzcape Solutions Inc, Dallas, TX

Sap S/4 Hana Architect 26523
Micro Solutions, Remote

SAP
HyreU, Alabama

SAP HANA XSA Consultant
Apptrics LLC, California

Sales Development Representative
YugabyteDB, Remote

Account Executive, Central
YugabyteDB, Chicago, IL

Principal Financial Analyst
YugabyteDB, Remote

Senior Cloud Engineer - Data Platforms
Fidelity Investments, Durham, NC

Senior Product Manager, Core Database
YugabyteDB, Remote

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here