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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	4.87
Rank	#74	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.esgyn.cn

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

SAP, formerly Sybase

Timescale

Initial release

2016

2015

1994

2017

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Atomic single-row operations

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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