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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Graphite

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.mcobject.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonMcObjectChris Davis
Initial release200720012006
Current release8.2, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++Python
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsnoyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infosupport of XML interfaces availableno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoby defining eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning / shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive Replication Fabricâ„¢ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBAmazon SimpleDBeXtremeDBGraphite
Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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