DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

sql.js.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Esgyn

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2014

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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