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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	72.12
Rank	#17	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#91	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	49.67
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

questdb.io/docs/introduction

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

QuestDB Limited

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2010

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

7.9.2, December 2022

2.0 SPS06 (March 4, 2022), March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Configurable consistency for N replicas

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID for single-table writes

yes

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

Application metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0.
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News

SQL Performance Tuning: Introducing EXPLAIN
26 January 2023

Three SQL Keywords for Finding Missing Data
24 January 2023

QuestDB 6.7 Release
23 January 2023

Using QuestDB to collect infrastructure metrics
19 January 2023

What Is Time-Series Data?
17 January 2023

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