DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

LDAP bind authentication

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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