DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GreptimeDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. GreptimeDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

greptime.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.greptime.com

help.sap.com/hana

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Greptime Inc.

SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1984

2016

2022

2010

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

3 replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
» more

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
» more

Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
» more

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
» more

Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
» more

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
» more

Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
» more

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
» more

Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
» more

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
» 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.