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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Drizzle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Drizzle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SwayDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.datastax.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAlibabaDataStaxDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSAP infoformerly SybaseSimer Plaha
Initial release2011200819922018
Current release6.8, April 20207.2.4, September 201217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBCADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per objectPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBDatastax EnterpriseDrizzleSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSwayDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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