DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

sql.js.org

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.timescale.com

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Timescale

Initial release

2017

1989

2012

2017

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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