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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 ClickhouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/postgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release202020172005
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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