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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. SwayDB

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

druid.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CCRi and others

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

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

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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