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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoft
Initial release201220122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release29.0.1, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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