DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2011

1994

2014

2018

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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