DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NCache vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NCache vs. SQLite

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Name

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

brytlyt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sqlite.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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Brytlyt

InterSystems

Alachisoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2018

2005

2000

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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