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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. TigerGraph

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Well established RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.geomesa.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

Spotify

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Ingres Replicator

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

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

Role-based access control

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