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

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

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

hazelcast.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Hazelcast

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2008

2013

2019

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version 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

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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

yes

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