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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2016

2004

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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