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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2database.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2016

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Mozilla public license

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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