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

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

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

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2015

2019

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic sharding

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.

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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