DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AllegroGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. AllegroGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

allegrograph.com

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Initial release

2004

2011

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

8.0, December 2023

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

MVCC

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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