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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Db2 Event Store  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	Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Event Store Time Series DBMS	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 0.27 Rank #309   Overall #2   Event Stores #28   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	www.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba	IBM	Microsoft
Initial release		2017	2016
Current release		2.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial free developer edition available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes
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Implementation language		C and C++	C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	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	yes through the embedded Spark runtime	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET DB2 Connect JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	C C# C++ Cobol Delphi Fortran Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python R Ruby Scala Visual Basic	C# Java PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	Transact SQL
Triggers	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Active-active shard replication	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	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	No - written data is immutable	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	IBM Db2 Event Store	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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