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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodCloud 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 modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.gbase.cnwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.SAP infoformerly SybaseSTS Soft SCOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2004199220112005
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c17, July 20154.0.8, September 201512.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJavaC#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBGBaseSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSTSdbVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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