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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache IoTDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 dataAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdruid.apache.orgiotdb.apache.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release201220182009
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.1.0, April 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Native API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesyes infousers and table-level permissions

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