DBMS > HBase vs. KairosDB vs. Linter vs. openGauss vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. KairosDB vs. Linter vs. openGauss vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

RDBMS for high security requirements

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

linter.ru

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

kairosdb.github.io

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

relex.ru

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

Initial release

2008

2013

1990

2019

2010

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

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

Java

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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