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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DuckDB vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

duckdb.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Initial release

2018

2001

2014

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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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