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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EsgynDB vs. IRONdb vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.esgyn.cn

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

sql.js.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

Circonus LLC.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2015

2017

2012

2014

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

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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