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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS	Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Search engine	Spatial DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models		Vector DBMS	Relational DBMS		Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines	Score 0.03 Rank #392   Overall #8   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS	Score 0.12 Rank #348   Overall #151   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	www.mireo.com/­spacetime	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search		www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html	docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer	Alibaba	Microsoft	Mireo	Transaction Software GmbH	Transwarp
Initial release		2015	2020	1987
Current release		V1		Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial free development license	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language			C++	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	RESTful HTTP API	RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	Java	C# Java JavaScript Python	C# C++ Python	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	no	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	yes using Azure authentication	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Microsoft Azure AI Search	SpaceTime	Transbase	Transwarp ArgoDB
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