DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

SAP

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2005

2010

2022

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes, using FoundationDB

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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