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DBMS > KairosDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperSAP, formerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2013199420142019
Current release1.2.2, November 201816.1 SPS04, April 20193.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrashared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexeryesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes
More information provided by the system vendor
KairosDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSnowflakeTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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