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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA 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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
cloud.google.com/­spannersphinxsearch.comsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcubrid.org/­manualscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationGoogleSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2008201720012017
Current release11.0, January 20213.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnonouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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