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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 visualizationWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecassandra.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOracleRockset
Initial release2013200820112019
Current release155854.1.3, July 202324.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesoptionaldynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
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.nonoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBAxibaseCassandraOracle NoSQLRockset
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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