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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Geode vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

geode.apache.org

www.timescale.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Timescale

Transwarp

Initial release

2002

2017

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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