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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Derby vs. Dragonfly vs. Newts vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

opennms.github.io/newts

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

OpenNMS Group

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1997

2023

2014

2008

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.0, March 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Password-based authentication

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