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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigObject vs. StarRocks vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

bigobject.io

www.starrocks.io

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.bigobject.io

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Timescale

Initial release

2015

2020

2017

Current release

2.5.3, March 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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