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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational 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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2012201320042019
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, Java, PythonC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
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 MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
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
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache DruidApache ImpalaGBaseTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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