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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Geode vs. HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgeode.apache.orghsqldb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgeode.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2002200120132009
Current release1.1, February 20172.7.2, June 20232.7.5, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsyes infousers and table-level permissions
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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