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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.citusdata.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Baidu

Microsoft

Initial release

2010

2018

2012

Current release

8.1, December 2018

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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