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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Citus vs. EXASOL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Citus vs. EXASOL

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  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 visualizationScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.citusdata.comwww.exasol.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.citusdata.comwww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationExasol
Initial release201320102000
Current release155858.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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