DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Oracle

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2013

2011

2019

Current release

15585

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

optional

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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