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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Altibase vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TDengine

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSWell established RDBMSMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicealtibase.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingreslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AltibaseActian CorporationMicrosoftTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release201619991974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19892019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.2, May 2022SQL Server 2022, November 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI SQL-92yesyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslytables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyesIngres Replicatoryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAltibaseIngresMicrosoft SQL ServerTDengine
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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