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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. jBASE vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.progress.com/openedge

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2014

1991

1984

2015

Current release

5.7

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

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