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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. atoti vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

atoti.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2database.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

docs.atoti.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Alibaba

ActiveViam

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Thomas Mueller

Google

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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