DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP IQ

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	DolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SAP IQ former name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS column-oriented
Secondary database models		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 4.03 Rank #78   Overall #6   Time Series DBMS		Score 2.64 Rank #108   Overall #52   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.dolphindb.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html		help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
Developer	Alibaba	DolphinDB, Inc	Sybase, SAP	SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release		2018	1993	1994
Current release		v2.00.4, January 2022		16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free community version available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
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	SQL-like query language	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	JDBC JSON over HTTP Kafka MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC OPC DA OPC UA RabbitMQ WebSocket	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java	C# C++ Go Java JavaScript MatLab Python R Rust	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Java Perl PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		horizontal partitioning	none	shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	SAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	yes	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Administrators, Users, Groups	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	DolphinDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SAP IQ former name: Sybase IQ
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