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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery

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Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.dolphindb.com

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Alibaba

DolphinDB, Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Initial release

2018

2000

2010

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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