DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.cockroachlabs.com

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Alibaba

Cockroach Labs

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2008

2014

2011

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Role-based access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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