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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	Spatial extension of PostgreSQL	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 21.72 Rank #29   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	postgis.net	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	spotify.github.io/­heroic	postgis.net/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba	Spotify		Sybase, SAP
Initial release		2014	2005	1993
Current release			3.4.2, February 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source GPL v2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C
Server operating systems	hosted			Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	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	yes	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes via Elasticsearch	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java			Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	user defined functions	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	yes based on PostgreSQL	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	yes based on PostgreSQL	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level		yes based on PostgreSQL	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Heroic	PostGIS	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
DB-Engines blog posts			Spatial database management systems 6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann show all
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