DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

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

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2014

2020

2015

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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