DBMS > KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Rockset

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2019

2010

1987

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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