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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

hbase.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2008

2012

1995

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

optimistic locking

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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