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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Axibase  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
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	Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Document store	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.35 Rank #282   Overall #25   Time Series DBMS	Score 4.36 Rank #72   Overall #12   Document stores	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	axibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­finance	cloud.google.com/­datastore	www.hawkular.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb		cloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer	Alibaba	Axibase Corporation	Google	Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release		2013	2008	2014
Current release		15585
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		Java		Java
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	hosted	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string	yes, details here	yes
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	SQL-like query language (GQL)	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	JDBC Proprietary protocol (Network API) RESTful HTTP API	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API RESTful HTTP/JSON API	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	Java	Go Java PHP Python R Ruby	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Go Java Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	using Google App Engine	no
Triggers	no	yes	Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine	yes via Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		Sharding	Sharding	Sharding based on Cassandra
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication using Paxos	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	yes using Google Cloud Dataflow	no
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.	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no	no
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level		Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)	no
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