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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. PostGIS

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.mcobject.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

McObject

Google

Initial release

2013

2001

2008

2005

Current release

15585

8.2, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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 and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Key customers

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