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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cassandra vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 accessGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcassandra.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgjsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookCCRi and othersKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release200820142018
Current release4.1.3, July 20235.0.0, May 20240.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononofunctions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"depending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibledepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
depending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBCassandraGeoMesaJSqlDb
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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