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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release201520172014
Current releaseV13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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