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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. RRDtool

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbkylin.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comcloud.google.com/­datastoreoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbkylin.apache.org/­docswww.enterprisedb.com/­docscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncEnterpriseDBGoogleTobias Oetiker
Initial release2015200520081999
Current release3.1.0, July 202014, December 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes, details hereNumeric data only
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.using Google App Engineno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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