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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Kingbase vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

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.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

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

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Cockroach Labs

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2015

1999

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

V8.0, August 2021

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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