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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Blazegraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

blazegraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

wiki.blazegraph.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Blazegraph

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Circonus LLC.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2006

2010

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

RDF literal types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

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