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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	In-memory caching system	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Time Series 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 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	cachelot.io	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb		spotify.github.io/­heroic	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba		Spotify	Microsoft
Initial release		2015	2014	2016
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Simplified BSD License	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		C++	Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	FreeBSD Linux OS X		hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	no	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	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	yes via Elasticsearch	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Memcached protocol	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby		C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	Transact SQL
Triggers	no	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	yes	yes
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	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
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	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	no	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no		yes
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Cachelot.io	Heroic	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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