DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alibaba

FairCom Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1979

2014

2012

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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

yes

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