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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PostgreSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlbangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014PostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release2000201220121989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release4.9.0, July 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202116.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.nononoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Callbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess control via Jena Securityyes (enterprise version only)yes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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