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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AntDB vs. Axibase vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

postgis.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Axibase Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

2014

Current release

15585

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

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