DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Greenplum vs. Rockset vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Greenplum vs. Rockset vs. SQLite

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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.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational 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.greenplum.org

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

Pivotal Software Inc.

Rockset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2005

2019

2000

Current release

21.2, February 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

since Version 4.2

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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