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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

phoenix.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2016

2011

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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 Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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