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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. JSqlDb vs. QuestDB vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

JSqlDB 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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

jsqldb.org (offline)

questdb.io

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

questdb.io/docs

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Konrad von Backstrom

QuestDB Technology Inc

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

Current release

0.8, December 2018

5.4, July 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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 with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

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.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

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