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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Badger vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Badger vs. HarperDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.harperdb.ioazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaDGraph LabsHarperDBMicrosoftTimescale
Initial release2017201720162017
Current release3.1, August 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoNode.jsC++C
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyes infoJSON data typesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaGo.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1Transact SQLuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding, horizontal partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoAccess rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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