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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAlibabaDragonflyDB team and community contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2023201020132006
Current release1.0, March 20232.7.6, April 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoNumeric data and Stringsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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