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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SingleStore

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonSpotifyInterSystemsSingleStore Inc.
Initial release2012201420182013
Current release2023.3, June 20238.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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