DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.openpie.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

OpenPie

Initial release

1991

1989

2015

Current release

5.7

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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