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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. chDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	chDB  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #376   Overall #158   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	github.com/­chdb-io/­chdb	www.hawkular.org	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	doc.chdb.io	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba		Community supported by Red Hat	Microsoft
Initial release		2023	2014	2016
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes
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Implementation language			Java	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less	Linux OS X Windows	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free		schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings		yes	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.	no		no	no
Secondary indexes	no		no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST		HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	Bun C C++ Go JavaScript (Node.js) Python Rust	Go Java Python Ruby	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no		no	Transact SQL
Triggers	no		yes via Hawkular Alerting	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes			Sharding based on Cassandra	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes			selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no		no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no		no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes		yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes		yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level		no	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	chDB	Hawkular Metrics	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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