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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. GBase vs. Solr

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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 HadoopWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201320042006
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c9.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersnononoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducespark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDoptimistic locking
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.nononoyes
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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