DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HugeGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HugeGraph vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Vertica

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.intersystems.com

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Baidu

InterSystems

Sybase, SAP

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2018

1997

1993

2005

Current release

0.9

2018.1.4, May 2020

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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