DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AllegroGraph vs. Apache Kylin vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AllegroGraph vs. Apache Kylin vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

allegrograph.com

kylin.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2015

2014

2019

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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