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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graph Engine

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Name

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#298	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#184	Overall
	#83	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#97	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#239	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2017

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

.NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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