DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. KeyDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. KeyDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Alibaba

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Ultipa

Initial release

2019

2014

2010

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

C++

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

over HTTP

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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