DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SWC-DB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	InterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database  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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Wide column store
Secondary database models		Document store		Time Series 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 #364   Overall #13   Wide column stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.intersystems.com/­products/­cache	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db www.swcdb.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.intersystems.com
Developer	Alibaba	InterSystems	Sybase, SAP	Alex Kashirin
Initial release		1997	1993	2020
Current release		2018.1.4, May 2020		0.5, April 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL V3
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language				C++
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX HP Open VMS HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux Windows	Linux
Data scheme	schema-free	depending on used data model	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	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	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	Proprietary protocol Thrift
Supported programming languages	Java	C# C++ Java	Delphi Perl PHP	C++
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication	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	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	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 caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Access rights for users, groups and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	InterSystems Caché	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SWC-DB Super Wide Column Database
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