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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroicsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectSpotifySurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2013201220142022
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaGoClojure
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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