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

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

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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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.snowflake.com

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

yanza.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Alibaba

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2020

2015

2023

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

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

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

Access Control Lists

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