DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Rockset vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Rockset vs. SurrealDB

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

docs.rockset.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rockset

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2004

2019

2022

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

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

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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