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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaElasticPivotal Software Inc.
Initial release201020052014
Current release8.6, January 20237.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesno
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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