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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Hive vs. QuestDB vs. Teradata

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisehive.apache.orgquestdb.iowww.teradata.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.datastax.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homequestdb.io/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAlibabaDataStaxApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookQuestDB Technology IncTeradata
Initial release2011201220141984
Current release6.8, April 20203.1.3, April 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 operationsnoACID for single-table writesACID
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 infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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