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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseopentsdb.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release201220112016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes, based on authentication and database rulesnono

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