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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. SingleStore

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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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Alibaba

DolphinDB, Inc

Spotify

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2013

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

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

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

yes

Administrators, Users, Groups

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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