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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.eventstore.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

FairCom Corporation

Rockset

Initial release

2012

1979

2019

Current release

21.2, February 2021

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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 with additional protections for files

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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