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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

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

dgraph.io/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

CNRS

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2016

2015

2013

1999

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

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