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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Axibase vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#296  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score75.58
Rank#16  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score11.30
Rank#41  Overall
#25  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#331  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbimpala.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financequasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAxibase Corporationquasardb
Initial release2012201320132009
Current release4.1.0, June 2022155853.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoquery execution via MapReduceyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual 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 regionnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
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)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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