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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Realm vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

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

realm.io

siridb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

realm.io/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Cesbit

Initial release

1989

2014

2017

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes

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

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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