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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.memcached.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoft
Initial release200319892015
Current release1.6.29, June 2024SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++Go
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsnoyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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