DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Axibase vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Axibase vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

iotdb.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Axibase Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2018

2013

2001

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

15585

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

yes

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