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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FatDB vs. Ingres vs. RethinkDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Well established RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rethinkdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

FatCloud

Actian Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2009

2012

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

MVCC based

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple authentication-based access control

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