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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

opentsdb.net

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP, Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2011

2014

1987

2010

Current release

16.0

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java and Transact-SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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