DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server 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	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph 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 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Alibaba	Microsoft	Sybase, SAP	Transwarp
Initial release		2016	1993
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	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
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	Java	C# Java PHP	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	yes
Triggers	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	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 docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID
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 caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transwarp StellarDB
Recent citations in the news		General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform 24 September 2023, DataScientest Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services 18 October 2023, AWS Blog Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, Microsoft Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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