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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison	TimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
		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	Spatial extension of PostgreSQL	A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Spatial DBMS	Time Series DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS	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 21.72 Rank #29   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS	Score 4.46 Rank #71   Overall #5   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	postgis.net	www.timescale.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb		postgis.net/­documentation	docs.timescale.com
Developer	Alibaba	Atos Convergence Creators		Timescale
Initial release		2016	2005	2017
Current release		1703	3.4.2, February 2024	2.15.0, May 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL v2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C	C
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux		Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	optional	yes	numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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	yes	yes
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	yes full PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	LDAP		ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages	Java	All languages with LDAP bindings		.Net C C++ Delphi Java JDBC JavaScript Perl PHP Python R Ruby Scheme Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	user defined functions	user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding cell division	yes based on PostgreSQL	yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	yes based on PostgreSQL	Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	Atomic execution of specific operations	ACID	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 based on PostgreSQL	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Atos Standard Common Repository	PostGIS	TimescaleDB
DB-Engines blog posts			Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news				TimescaleDB Is a Vector Database Now, Too 25 September 2023, Datanami Timescale Acquires PopSQL to Bring a Modern, Collaborative SQL GUI to PostgreSQL Developers 4 April 2024, PR Newswire Power IoT and time-series workloads with TimescaleDB for Azure Database for PostgreSQL 18 March 2019, Microsoft Timescale Valuation Rockets to Over $1B with $110M Round, Marking the Explosive Rise of Time-Series Data 22 February 2022, Business Wire TimescaleDB goes distributed; implements ‘Chunking’ over ‘Sharding’ for scaling-out 22 August 2019, Packt Hub provided by Google News

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