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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. SingleStore vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.singlestore.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

SingleStore Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

1983

2013

2016

Current release

15585

19.4.1, November 2021

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

All OS with a Java 7 VM

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

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

PHP

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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