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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Rockset vs. VoltDB

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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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.eventstore.com

rockset.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

docs.rockset.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Event Store Limited

Rockset

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2019

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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