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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ToroDB 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	ToroDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
			ToroDB 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	A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store	Relational 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 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	github.com/­torodb/­server	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.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Alibaba	Microsoft	8Kdata	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release		2016	2016	1987
Current release				Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source AGPL-V3	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	Java	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	All OS with a Java 7 VM	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id	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		yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes		yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	Java	C# Java PHP		C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL		yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	Source-replica replication	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	Eventual 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	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			no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	yes	Access rights for users and roles	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	ToroDB	Transbase
Recent citations in the news		General Available: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4 is now GA | Azure updates 8 April 2024, azure.microsoft.com Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates 22 March 2024, azure.microsoft.com 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 vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024 26 March 2024, eWeek provided by Google News

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