DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ReductStore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ReductStore vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.reduct.store/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Exasol

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

ReductStore LLC

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

1984

2023

2014

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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