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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Derby vs. EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Rockset

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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.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

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

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

developers.eventstore.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

CCRi and others

Rockset

Initial release

1997

2012

2014

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual 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

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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