DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Greenplum vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Greenplum vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

greenplum.org

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.greenplum.org

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Pivotal Software Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2005

2010

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

Java

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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