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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSEvent StoreTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.eventstore.comopentsdb.netprometheus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdevelopers.eventstore.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaEvent Store Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRockset
Initial release2012201120152019
Current release21.2, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlydynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnononoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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