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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. HyperSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDistributed 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 metricMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdrill.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchhsqldb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdrill.apache.org/­docsdgraph.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.Elastic
Initial release2012201620102001
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.6, January 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesJava, SQL
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelDepending on the underlying data sourceno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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