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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. EXASOL

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

druid.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bangdb.com

www.exasol.com

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.bangdb.com

www.exasol.com/resources

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Axibase Corporation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Exasol

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

2000

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

15585

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
Lua
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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