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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. Coveo vs. Datomic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. Coveo vs. Datomic

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.citusdata.comwww.coveo.comwww.datomic.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.citusdata.comdocs.coveo.comdocs.datomic.com
DeveloperAlibabaCoveoCognitect
Initial release201020122012
Current release8.1, December 20181.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCJava, Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoTransaction Functions
TriggersnoyesyesBy using transaction functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersno

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