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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. openGemini

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.gbase.cngriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.griddb.netwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba CorporationIBMHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release2004201320172022
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 20222.01.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at container levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accounts
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBGBaseGridDBIBM Db2 Event StoreopenGemini
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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