DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Greenplum vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Greenplum vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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.

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

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series 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	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

greenplum.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.greenplum.org

help.sap.com/hana

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Pivotal Software Inc.

SAP

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2005

2010

2018

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

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