DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Newts vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	InterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison	Newts  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
		Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	A multi-model DBMS and application server	Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS		Score 0.07 Rank #375   Overall #41   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.intersystems.com/­products/­cache	opennms.github.io/­newts	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.intersystems.com	github.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
Developer	Alibaba	InterSystems	OpenNMS Group	Sybase, SAP
Initial release		1997	2014	1993
Current release		2018.1.4, May 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			Java
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX HP Open VMS HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	depending on used data model	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	HTTP REST Java API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java	C# C++ Java	Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding based on Cassandra	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	no	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	Access rights for users, groups and roles	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	InterSystems Caché	Newts	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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