DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

impala.apache.org

pinot.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.pinot.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

1989

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.0.0, September 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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