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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Databricks vs. DolphinDB vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.databricks.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

docs.databricks.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Databricks

DolphinDB, Inc

LeanXcale

Initial release

2013

2018

2015

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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