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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Altibase vs. DataFS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

altibase.com

newdatabase.com

www.hawkular.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

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

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

Mobiland AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1999

2018

2014

1991

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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

ANSI SQL-92

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Windows-Profile

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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