DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Kingbase vs. SAP HANA vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Kingbase vs. SAP HANA vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Alibaba

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SAP

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

1999

2010

2020

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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