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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2014

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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