DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. Snowflake vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. Ignite vs. Snowflake vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2019

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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