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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. H2 vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

duckdb.org

www.h2database.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Thomas Mueller

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2018

2005

2004

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

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

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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