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

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

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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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

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	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Oushu

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2010

2019

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++

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

over HTTP

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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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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