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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cubrid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.eventstore.com

google.github.io/lovefield

typedb.com

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Event Store Limited

Google

Vaticle

Initial release

2008

2012

2014

2016

Current release

11.0, January 2021

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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