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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.datomic.comnsdb.iorethinkdb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.datomic.comnsdb.io/­Architecturerethinkdb.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201720092022
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.4.1, August 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, ScalaC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
Java
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Using Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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