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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Dgraph vs. Ingres

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

drill.apache.org

dgraph.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

dgraph.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2012

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Ingres Replicator

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

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Depending on the underlying data source

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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