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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebolt vs. Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebolt vs. Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 ClickhouseApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.firebolt.ioignite.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.firebolt.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.quasardb
Initial release2020201520172009
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luano
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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