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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. XTDB

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

quasar.ai

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Spotify

quasardb

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2014

2009

2019

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

integer and binary

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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