DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alibaba

Spotify

Microsoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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