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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.45
Rank	#267	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

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

docs.tdengine.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Microsoft

Mireo

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2010

2020

2019

1987

Current release

V12

3.0, August 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL for querying

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A 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 metrics

TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-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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