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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Kdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.High performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisekx.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.datastax.comcode.kx.com
DeveloperAlibabaDataStaxKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release201920112000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release6.8, April 20203.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaq
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectrights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBAmazon DocumentDBDatastax EnterpriseKdb
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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