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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero

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Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

prometheus.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

prometheus.io/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2015

1999

2010

2003

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

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

C++ and CUDA

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

by Federation

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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