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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceCloud-based data warehousing serviceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAlibabaIBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftTeradata
Initial release2014200320152005
Current release1.6.27, May 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnonoR packages
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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