DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2020

1987

2015

Current release

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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