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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Bangdb

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Name

Description

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

drill.apache.org

bangdb.com

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bangdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Depending on the underlying data source

yes (enterprise version only)

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