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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Yanza

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score77.72
Rank#16  Overall
#2  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score30.39
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.datomic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCognitectMicrosoftYanza
Initial release2012201220142015
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJava, Clojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infoJSON typesno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction FunctionsJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS LambdaBy using transaction functionsJavaScriptyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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