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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Citus vs. EsgynDB

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Name

Description

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

pinot.apache.org

www.citusdata.com

www.esgyn.cn

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.citusdata.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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