DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Brytlyt vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Brytlyt vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenSearch

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

brytlyt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Brytlyt

FatCloud

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

2021

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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