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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbphoenix.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbphoenix.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationGoogleSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2014200820132014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes, details hereNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsusing Google App Enginenouser defined functions
TriggersnonoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual 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.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBApache PhoenixGoogle Cloud DatastoreInfluxDBSnowflake
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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