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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.datastax.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAlibabaDataStaxGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014RocksetAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2011201220192008
Current release6.8, April 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesdynamic typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBDatastax EnterpriseFirebase Realtime DatabaseRocksetSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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