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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 RDBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbduckdb.orgwww.snowflake.comwww.tigergraph.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbduckdb.org/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaSnowflake Computing Inc.Timescale
Initial release2018201420172017
Current release1.0.0, June 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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