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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Heroic vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

clickhouse.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Spotify

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

simple password-based access control

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