DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OushuDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OushuDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

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	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Oushu

Percona

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Initial release

2015

2014

2010

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

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

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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