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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Databend vs. Hazelcast vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

hazelcast.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.databend.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Databend Labs

Hazelcast

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2021

2008

2011

2005

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

Events

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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