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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hyprcubd vs. Kinetica vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hyprcubd vs. Kinetica vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Serverless Time Series DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcloud.google.com/­spannerhyprcubd.com (offline)www.kinetica.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.kinetica.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleHyprcubd, Inc.KineticaSplice Machine
Initial release201720122014
Current release7.1, August 20213.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersnononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud DataflownonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.nononoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)token accessAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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