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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2008

2021

2015

2009

1993

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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