DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.esgyn.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Esgyn

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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