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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SiteWhere

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Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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Rank	#306	Overall
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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
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Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

duckdb.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Google

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

2008

2010

Current release

0.10, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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