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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Dolt vs. GreptimeDB vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

greptime.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolthub.com

docs.greptime.com

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba

DoltHub Inc

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2018

2022

2013

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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