DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

kylin.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Google

SAP

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2008

2010

2016

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.2.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 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

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TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.

Implementation language

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, details here

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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