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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. searchxml

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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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

multiple readers, single writer

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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