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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cassandra vs. EventStoreDB vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeEvent StoreDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcassandra.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookEvent Store LimitedRockset
Initial release200820122019
Current release4.1.3, July 202321.2, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesdynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBCassandraEventStoreDBRockset
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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