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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. ArangoDB vs. GBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgarangodb.comwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.arangodb.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaArangoDB Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release2012201320122004
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20223.11.5, November 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infosince version 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with configurable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScript
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyesyes
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache DruidApache ImpalaArangoDBGBase
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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