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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebolt vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. Newts

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.firebolt.iomilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.firebolt.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Hypertable Inc.OpenNMS Group
Initial release2020200920192014
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBFireboltHypertableMilvusNewts
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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