DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BigchainDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

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Name

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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.bigchaindb.com

opentsdb.net

www.snowflake.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2011

2014

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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