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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AllegroGraph vs. Citus vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdballegrograph.comwww.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014Rockset
Initial release2004201020122019
Current release8.0, December 20238.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesyes
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesdynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobulk load of XML files possibleyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBAllegroGraphCitusFirebase Realtime DatabaseRockset
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