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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Couchbase vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

docs.rockset.com

docs.timescale.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

Rockset

Timescale

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2011

2019

2017

2001

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

HTTP REST

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

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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