DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

In-memory caching system

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cachelot.io

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

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

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

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

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2015

2017

1989

Current release

15585

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

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

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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