DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba

Kinetica

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2010

1998

1999

Current release

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

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, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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