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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RRDtool vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.exasol.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAlibabaExasolOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Tobias OetikerScyllaDB
Initial release2000198419992015
Current release7.4.1.1, 20211.8.0, 2022ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemshostedHP Open VMSHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Lua
Python
R
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodenono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.noyesnoyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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