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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Rockset vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.hawkular.org

rockset.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Community supported by Red Hat

Rockset

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2014

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

yes

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