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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Citus vs. EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MonetDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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 PostgreSQLHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.citusdata.comwww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.citusdata.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAlibabaExasolGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MonetDB BV
Initial release2010200020122004
Current release8.1, December 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in SQL, C, R
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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