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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OushuDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.oushu.com/documentation

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Oushu

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

C
C++

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop 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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

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