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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. chDB vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

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

doc.chdb.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Alibaba

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2023

2007

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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