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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transbase

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.postgres-xl.org	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Alibaba	Microsoft		Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release		2016	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB	1987
Current release			10 R1, October 2018	Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	C	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux macOS	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	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	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes distributed, parallel query execution	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	Java	C# Java PHP	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	user defined functions	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding, horizontal partitioning	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes		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 docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID MVCC	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		no	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Postgres-XL	Transbase
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