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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. EJDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

arcadedb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.arcadedb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Alibaba

Arcade Data

Softmotions

quasardb

Initial release

2021

2012

2015

2009

Current release

September 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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