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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. GBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. GBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaltibase.comdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release1999201220132004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes

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