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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engineSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhbase.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetManticore SoftwareMicrosoftTimescale
Initial release2008201720152017
Current release2.3.4, January 20216.0, February 2023V12.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsoptions to bring your own types, AVROInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoCan index from XMLnoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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