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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Apache Pinot  Xexclude from comparison	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency	RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	RDF store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.38 Rank #275   Overall #126   Relational DBMS	Score 0.74 Rank #222   Overall #9   RDF stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	pinot.apache.org	rdf4j.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.pinot.apache.org	rdf4j.org/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba	Apache Software Foundation and contributors	Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release		2015	2004	1993
Current release		1.0.0, September 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher	Linux OS X Unix Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes RDF Schemas	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	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.	no			no
Secondary indexes	no		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	JDBC	Java API RIO RDF Input/Output Sail API SeRQL Sesame RDF Query Language Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SPARQL	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	Go Java Python	Java PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no		yes	yes
Triggers	no		yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		horizontal partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes			none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency			Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no			yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no		ACID Isolation support depends on the API used	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes		yes in-memory storage is supported as well	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no			no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level		no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Apache Pinot	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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