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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BaseX vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  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.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbbasex.orgquestdb.ioswaydb.simer.auwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.basex.orgquestdb.io/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHQuestDB Technology IncSimer PlahaTeradata
Initial release2007201420181984
Current release10.7, August 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBBaseXQuestDBSwayDBTeradata
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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