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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbbasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbH
Initial release200720162010
Current release11.0, June 20248.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsno infoXQuery supports typesnoyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infostandard, with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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