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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Doris vs. Cassandra vs. Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#244  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
cassandra.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikicassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdgraph.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookDgraph Labs, Inc.Elastic
Initial release2017200820162010
Current release1.2.2, February 20234.1.3, July 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL client
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"yesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSynchronous replication via Raftyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno infoPlanned for future releases
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache DorisCassandraDgraphElasticsearch
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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