DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SQLite

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.datomic.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

Hypertable Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2009

2016

2000

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

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