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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbpinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsElasticMicrosoft
Initial release201520102015
Current release1.0.0, September 20238.6, January 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
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.noMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes infousing Azure authentication

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