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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA

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NameITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ittia.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperITTIA L.L.C.MicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP
Initial release20071989201420092010
Current release8.7SQL Server 2022, November 20223.2.0, December 20222.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeFixed schemayesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanoErlangSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodestables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDatabase file passwordsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityyes
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ITTIAMicrosoft SQL ServerQuestDBRiak KVSAP HANA
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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