DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cassandra vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cassandra vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cassandra.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Rockset

Initial release

2008

2012

2011

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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