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

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. OpenSearch 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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Vector 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	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

www.eventstore.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2021

2019

2022

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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