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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transbase

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	jBASE  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware	Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Multivalue DBMS	Search engine	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.49 Rank #156   Overall #3   Multivalue DBMS	Score 5.52 Rank #59   Overall #6   Search engines	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9	learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Alibaba	Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)	Microsoft	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release		1991	2015	1987
Current release		5.7	V1	Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language				C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	AIX Linux Windows	hosted	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	optional	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	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	no		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API SOAP-based API	RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	Java	.Net Basic Jabbascript Java	C# Java JavaScript Python	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	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
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	no	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	yes using Azure authentication	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	jBASE	Microsoft Azure AI Search	Transbase
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