DBMS > etcd vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2011

2010

2018

Current release

3.4, August 2019

V12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

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