DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. Snowflake

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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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

en.gstore.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Spotify

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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