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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. TimescaleDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

kylin.apache.org

www.timescale.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.timescale.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Timescale

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2015

2017

1999

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.13.0, November 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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