DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfinityDB vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfinityDB vs. LevelDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/apple/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

boilerbay.com

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

apple.github.io/foundationdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Alibaba

FoundationDB

Google

Boiler Bay Inc.

Google

Initial release

2013

2010

2002

2011

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

4.0

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

some layers support typing

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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