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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

duckdb.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

OpenPie

Initial release

2018

1989

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
Windows

hosted

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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