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

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hazelcast vs. RavenDB 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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

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

ravendb.net

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

ravendb.net/docs

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Hazelcast

Hibernating Rhinos

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2008

2010

2019

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

5.4, July 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Role-based access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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

yes

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