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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Faircom DB vs. IRONdb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Faircom DB vs. IRONdb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationFairCom CorporationCirconus LLC.Timescale
Initial release2013197920172017
Current release15585V13, July 2024V0.10.20, January 20182.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C and C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, in Luauser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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