DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Baidu

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

1992

1999

2014

Current release

0.9

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

HP-UX
Linux

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

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Users, roles and permissions

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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

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