DBMS > MarkLogic vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.marklogic.com

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

2001

2014

2010

2014

2005

Current release

11.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

C++

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

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

over HTTP

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

SQLScript, R

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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, with Range Indexes

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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