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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GreptimeDB vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

greptime.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

help.sap.com/hana

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Greptime Inc.

SAP

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2013

2022

2010

2011

2005

Current release

15585

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C#
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

SQLScript, R

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark 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

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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