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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. DolphinDB vs. GridDB vs. Heroic

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.dolphindb.comgriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaDolphinDB, IncToshiba CorporationSpotify
Initial release2013201820132014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyesACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBBoltDBDolphinDBGridDBHeroic
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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