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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FileMaker vs. GridDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

griddb.net

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.griddb.net

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Toshiba Corporation

Initial release

1983

2013

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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