DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

basex.org

www.dolphindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.basex.org

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2007

2018

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON types

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

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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 managed on TSDB instance level

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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