DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. Newts vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GBase vs. Newts vs. OpenMLDB

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.gbase.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

OpenNMS Group

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2012

2004

2014

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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