DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Drizzle vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Drizzle vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Ultipa

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Ultipa

Initial release

2008

2014

2010

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

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

C++

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

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

over HTTP

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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 managed on TSDB instance level

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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