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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. chDB vs. HBase vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

doc.chdb.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

Initial release

2018

2023

2008

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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