DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

hive.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Hughes Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2012

1994

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

4.4, October 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

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

none

Immediate 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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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