DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BaseX vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BaseX vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Spatial extension of SQLite

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

basex.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

SAP, formerly Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Timescale

Initial release

2007

1994

2008

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

XQuery supports types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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