DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.snowflake.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2007

2014

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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