DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.h2gis.org

hive.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2012

2013

1992

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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