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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Ignite  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	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.	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Relational DBMS	Key-value store	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 3.11 Rank #96   Overall #15   Key-value stores #49   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	ignite.apache.org	boilerbay.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	apacheignite.readme.io/­docs	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
Developer	Alibaba	Apache Software Foundation	Boiler Bay Inc.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release		2015	2002	1993
Current release		Apache Ignite 2.6	4.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++, Java, .Net	Java
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X Solaris Windows	All OS with a Java VM	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	HDFS API Hibernate JCache JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API Spring Data	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	C# C++ Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes (cache interceptors and events)	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes (replicated cache)	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Security Hooks for custom implementations	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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