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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. XTDB

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2010

2020

2019

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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