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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure SQL Database formerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models				Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 76.78 Rank #16   Overall #11   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	bigobject.io	machbase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.bigobject.io	machbase.com/­dbms	docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
Developer	Alibaba	BigObject, Inc.	Machbase	Microsoft
Initial release		2015	2013	2010
Current release			V8.0, August 2023	V12
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community edition available	commercial free test version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language			C	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	Linux macOS Windows	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	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	no	no	yes
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java		C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	.Net C# Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Lua	no	Transact SQL
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	selectable replication factor	yes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	no	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	yes volatile and lookup table
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no	simple password-based access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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