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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbduckdb.orgwww.sadasengine.comsql.js.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbduckdb.org/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaSADAS s.r.l.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTimescale
Initial release2018200620122017
Current release1.0.0, June 20248.02.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data 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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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