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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Riak KV

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbbigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.exasol.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.bigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.ElasticExasolOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2015201020002009
Current release8.6, January 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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