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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebolt vs. GigaSpaces vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.firebolt.iowww.gigaspaces.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.firebolt.iodocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Gigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release202020002014
Current release15.5, September 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRole-based access controlno

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