DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

Initial release

2012

1999

2006

2010

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

8.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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