DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational 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	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

postgis.net

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2005

2014

2017

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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