DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Snowflake vs. Virtuoso vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Snowflake vs. Virtuoso vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	4.20
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#2	Native XML DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores
	#9	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

kylin.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

OpenLink Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2014

1998

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

7.2.11, September 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Broad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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