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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. GBase vs. gStore vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2004

2016

1995

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2, November 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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