DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

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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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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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	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Alibaba

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2014

2001

2015

2017

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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