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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. InfluxDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release2012201220072013
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GridGain 8.5.12.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL for queryingANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACIDno
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.nonoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accounts
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBAmazon DynamoDBApache DruidGridGainInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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