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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. PostGIS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#197	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.gigaspaces.com

postgis.net

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

postgis.net/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

Gigaspaces Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2005

2000

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Role-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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