DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databend vs. jBASE vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databend vs. jBASE vs. Realm

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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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

realm.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.databend.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

realm.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Databend Labs

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2012

2021

1991

2014

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

hosted
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate 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

yes

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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