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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.	Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java also known as HSQLDB	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 3.23 Rank #93   Overall #48   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.gbase.cn	hsqldb.org	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb		hsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.		Microsoft
Initial release		2004	2001	2016
Current release		GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c	2.7.2, June 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source based on BSD license	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		C, Java, Python	Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	All OS with a Java VM Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	Standard with numerous extensions	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	HTTP API JDBC via HTTP JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	C#	All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC Java	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	user defined functions	Java, SQL	Transact SQL
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	none	yes
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	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
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
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	GBase	HyperSQL also known as HSQLDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Recent citations in the news			Introduction to JDBC with HSQLDB tutorial 14 November 2022, TheServerSide.com HyperSQL DataBase flaw leaves library vulnerable to RCE 24 October 2022, The Daily Swig provided by Google News	General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, azure.microsoft.com Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, azure.microsoft.com Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News

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