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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GeoMesa vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.geomesa.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.heavy.ai

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2014

2016

1994

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++ and CUDA

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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