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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. VoltDB

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

druid.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Softmotions

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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