DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trino.io

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

www.ultipa.com/document

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Trino Software Foundation

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2010

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

over HTTP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

yes

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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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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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

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