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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. ReductStore vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.reduct.store/docs

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Exasol

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2000

1984

2023

2008

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.9, March 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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