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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

Initial release

2008

1993

2011

2010

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

LGPL

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

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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