DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ClickHouse vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. ClickHouse vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

clickhouse.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

prometheus.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

prometheus.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rockset

Initial release

2016

1991

2015

2019

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

Numeric data only

dynamic typing

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

Import of XML data possible

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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