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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Ultipa

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	Ultipa  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Search engine	Graph DBMS
Secondary database models			Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines	Score 0.19 Rank #330   Overall #30   Graph DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	boilerbay.com	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	www.ultipa.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search	www.ultipa.com/­document
Developer	Alibaba	Boiler Bay Inc.	Microsoft	Ultipa
Initial release		2002	2015	2019
Current release		4.0	V1
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		Java
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	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 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	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	RESTful HTTP API	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java	Java	C# Java JavaScript Python	C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no
Triggers	no	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service
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	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no	yes using Azure authentication
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	InfinityDB	Microsoft Azure AI Search	Ultipa
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