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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk

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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.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.gbase.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2004

2016

1994

2003

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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 for users and roles

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