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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 PostgreSQLA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemakerwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.citusdata.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAlibabaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2010202319832006
Current release8.1, December 20181.0, March 202319.4.1, November 20218.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 functionalitynoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes infovia pluginsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Luayesno
Triggersnoyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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