DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com

www.sqlite.org

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

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2006

2000

2020

Current release

8.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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