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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform	Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Graph DBMS	Relational DBMS	Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	galaxybase.com	www.gbase.cn	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb
Developer	Alibaba	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.	Microsoft
Initial release		2017	2004	2012
Current release		Nov 20, November 2021	GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		C and Java	C, Java, Python
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	Strong typed schema	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	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	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	Standard with numerous extensions	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java	Go Java Python	C#	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	user defined procedures and functions	user defined functions	no
Triggers	no		yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes			yes	yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no		no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes Relationships in graphs	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	optimistic locking
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes		no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Role-based access control	yes	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Galaxybase	GBase	Microsoft Azure Table Storage
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