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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Machbase Neo

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.	A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.29 Rank #304   Overall #43   Key-value stores #136   Relational DBMS	Score 2.84 Rank #100   Overall #51   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db	cloud.google.com/­spanner	machbase.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html	cloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs	machbase.com/­dbms
Developer	Alibaba	FairCom Corporation	Google	Machbase
Initial release		1979	2017	2013
Current release		V12, November 2020		V8.0, August 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial Restricted, free version available	commercial	commercial free test version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		ANSI C, C++		C
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux NetBSD OS X QNX SCO Solaris VxWorks Windows easily portable to other OSs	hosted	Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures	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	yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions	yes Query statements complying to ANSI 2011	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET Direct SQL JDBC JPA ODBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful MQTT/JSON API RPC	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API JDBC At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements. RESTful HTTP API	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	.Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js and browser) PHP Python Visual Basic	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes .Net, JavaScript, C/C++	no	no
Triggers	no	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding Customizable business rules for table partitioning	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).	Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.	selectable replication factor
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes using Google Cloud Dataflow	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent	ACID Strict serializable isolation	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory	yes	no
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	yes volatile and lookup table
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)	simple password-based access control
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Faircom DB formerly c-treeACE	Google Cloud Spanner	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux
Recent citations in the news		FairCom Unveils New Look, FairCom DB v13: Introducing 'DB Made Simple' 4 June 2024, businesswire.com FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English 10 November 2020, PR Newswire provided by Google News	Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase 14 October 2023, InfoQ.com Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB 11 October 2023, TechCrunch Google makes its Cloud Spanner database service faster and more cost-efficient 11 October 2023, SiliconANGLE News Google Cloud just fired a major volley at AWS as the cloud wars heat up 12 October 2023, TechRadar Google Spanner: When Do You Need to Move to It? 11 September 2023, hackernoon.com provided by Google News

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