DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Derby vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Derby vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

db.apache.org/derby

hazelcast.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Hazelcast

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

1997

2008

2019

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

dynamic typing

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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