DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Aurora vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Aurora vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

Initial release

2015

1991

2015

2010

Current release

5.7

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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