DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Rockset vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Rockset vs. Tarantool

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Event Store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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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	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.eventstore.com

rockset.com

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.eventstore.com

docs.rockset.com

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Event Store Limited

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2019

2008

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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 organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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