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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV 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.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store

Secondary database models

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	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.eventstore.com

prometheus.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

prometheus.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2015

2009

2019

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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, using Riak Security

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

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