DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.gbase.cn

maxdb.sap.com

www.postgres-xl.org

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

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

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

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Rocket Software

Initial release

2004

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1985

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.9.10.12, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

Java API

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

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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