DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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