DBMS > KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Initial release

2013

2010

1994

2010

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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