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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. openGemini

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAnalytic DBMS for HadoopWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbimpala.apache.orgwww.gbase.cngriddb.netwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.griddb.netdocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba CorporationHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release2013200420132022
Current release4.1.0, June 2022GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 20221.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at container levelno
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAdministrators and common users accounts
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache ImpalaGBaseGridDBopenGemini
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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