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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. RRDtool

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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 StorageDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdrill.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTobias Oetiker
Initial release2012201320031999
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.7.6, April 20241.6.27, May 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesNumeric data and StringsnoNumeric data only
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaC++.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache DrillInfluxDBMemcachedRRDtool
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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