DBMS > Altibase vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Spotify

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1999

2014

2010

2003

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

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

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

over HTTP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

through memory mapped files

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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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

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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