DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.87
Rank	#74	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

impala.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

Timescale

Initial release

2013

2015

1989

2017

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

23.1.1, May 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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