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

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

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2010

1983

2013

2006

Current release

8.1, December 2018

19.4.1, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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