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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational 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	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

drill.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.eventstore.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Event Store Limited

Google

Initial release

2012

2008

2012

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, January 2021

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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