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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaSpotifyHypertable Inc.
Initial release2013201420092005
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaGoC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonoACID
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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