DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. ReductStore vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. ReductStore 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.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.eventstore.com

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.reduct.store/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

ReductStore LLC

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2023

2019

Current release

21.2, February 2021

10 R1, October 2018

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal 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

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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