DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

drill.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Google

SiteWhere

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2022

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

JavaScript

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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