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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#294	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#84	Overall
	#7	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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