DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Cubrid  Xexclude from comparison	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  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	CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Event Store	Relational 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 1.04 Rank #187   Overall #87   Relational DBMS	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	cubrid.com (korean) cubrid.org (english)	www.eventstore.com	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	cubrid.org/­manuals	developers.eventstore.com	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba	CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation	Event Store Limited	Google	Microsoft
Initial release		2008	2012	2014	2016
Current release		11.0, January 2021	21.2, February 2021	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		C, C++, Java		JavaScript	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	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	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes		SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB			ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Ruby		JavaScript	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java Stored Procedures		no	Transact SQL
Triggers	no	yes		Using read-only observers	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none		none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication		none	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	Immediate Consistency			Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes		yes	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	ACID		ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes		yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no		yes using MemoryDB
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		no	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Cubrid	EventStoreDB	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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