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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. EXASOL vs. Faircom DB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

bangdb.com

www.exasol.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Exasol

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2013

2012

2000

1979

Current release

15585

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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