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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. TimesTen vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.postgresql.fastware.com

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Rocket Software

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

1998

1985

2005

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customers

Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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