DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. RocksDB

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.esgyn.cn

cloud.google.com/datastore

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Esgyn

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2008

2013

Current release

15585

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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