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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

impala.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2013

2016

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
PHP

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

replication via a shared file system

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

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

Roles, resources, and access types

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