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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hive vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.gigaspaces.com

hive.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Gigaspaces Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2012

2014

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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