DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Netezza vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Netezza vs. RRDtool

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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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

IBM

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

2000

1999

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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