DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Sqrrl

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

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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 embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational 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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Spotify

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

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

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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