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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. OrientDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Graph 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
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbbigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dborientdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.FairCom CorporationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2015197920102022
Current releaseV12, November 20203.2.29, March 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Java, Javascript
TriggersnonoyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, based on authentication and database rules

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