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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. MaxDB vs. Vertica

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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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

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

maxdb.sap.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2008

1984

2005

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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