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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Badger vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memcached vs. ToroDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB 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 serviceAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercloud.google.com/­spannerwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgercloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaDGraph LabsGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal8Kdata
Initial release2017201720032016
Current release1.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoCJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaGoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoStrict serializable isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and roles

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