DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OushuDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OushuDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TimescaleDB

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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 high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

Oushu

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Timescale

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 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

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++

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

over HTTP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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