DBMS > EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. KeyDB vs. SAP HANA vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. KeyDB vs. SAP HANA vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

kairosdb.github.io

docs.keydb.dev

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Exasol

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

SAP

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

2013

2019

2010

2016

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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