DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EsgynDB vs. etcd vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EsgynDB vs. etcd vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL

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Name

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 reliable key-value store

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.esgyn.cn

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2015

2014

1995

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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