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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Hive vs. Databricks

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Hive vs. Databricks

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Hive  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database servicedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#296  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score62.49
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score90.03
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhive.apache.orgwww.databricks.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.databricks.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDatabricks
Initial release20122013
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQL
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions and aggregates
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache HiveDatabricks
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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