DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

arcadedb.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.arcadedb.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Arcade Data

Baidu

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2021

2018

1989

2011

Current release

September 2021

0.9

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

edges in graph

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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