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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. JaguarDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.datomic.com

www.jaguardb.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

DataJaguar, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2015

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.3 July 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

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