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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 StorageDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.23
Rank#82  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdrill.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201820101987
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v2.00.4, January 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
.NETFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelDepending on the underlying data sourceAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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