DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Spatial extension of SQLite

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

OpenPie

SAP, formerly Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Timescale

Initial release

1994

2008

2017

Current release

2.1, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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