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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2016

1992

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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