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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

Spotify

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

2004

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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