DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2007

Current release

V12

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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