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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. EXASOL vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Bangdb vs. EXASOL vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebangdb.comwww.exasol.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.bangdb.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationSachin Sinha, BangDBExasolQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2013201220002014
Current release15585BangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBAxibaseBangdbEXASOLQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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