DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Derby vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Derby vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB 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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

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	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

db.apache.org/derby

www.eventstore.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

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

developers.eventstore.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Rockset

Initial release

1997

2012

2014

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

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