DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.citusdata.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.citusdata.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

1989

Current release

8.1, December 2018

V0.10.20, January 2018

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes, in Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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