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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Couchbase vs. Rockset vs. Trino

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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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.couchbase.com

rockset.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

docs.rockset.com

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

Rockset

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2011

2019

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

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

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Automatic sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

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

SQL standard access control

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