DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server 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.

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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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	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.eventstore.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

Rockset

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2019

1987

2000

Current release

21.2, February 2021

16.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
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

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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