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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Teradata Aster

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	Teradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
		This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.		Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore 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	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Search engine	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS		Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb		learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Developer	Alibaba	Atos Convergence Creators	Microsoft	Teradata
Initial release		2016	2015	2005
Current release		1703	V1
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		Java
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	hosted	Linux
Data scheme	schema-free	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	yes	Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	optional	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	yes	no	yes in Aster File Store
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	LDAP	RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	All languages with LDAP bindings	C# Java JavaScript Python	C C# C++ Java Python R
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	R packages
Triggers	no	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding cell division	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	yes SQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	Atomic execution of specific operations	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	LDAP bind authentication	yes using Azure authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Atos Standard Common Repository	Microsoft Azure AI Search	Teradata Aster
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