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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. openGauss vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Huawei and openGauss community

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Initial release

2013

2019

2014

2010

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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, C++, Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java

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

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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