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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. GridDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgriddb.netwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.griddb.netdocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAlibabaToshiba CorporationKineticaMonetDB BV
Initial release2013201320122004
Current release5.1, August 20227.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C, C++C
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGoC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID at container levelnoACID
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.nonoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBBoltDBGridDBKineticaMonetDB
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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