DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Heroic vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Heroic vs. Realm

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

In-memory caching system

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.bigchaindb.com

cachelot.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

realm.io

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

realm.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Spotify

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

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