DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SQLite vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SQLite vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.sqlite.org

www.timescale.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

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

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.timescale.com

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Timescale

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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