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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. VoltDB

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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.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.geomesa.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

CCRi and others

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

1992

2017

2010

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

17, July 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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