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

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

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Name

Description

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2014

2022

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

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

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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