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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HarperDB vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.harperdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Google

HarperDB

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2010

2017

1993

Current release

3.1, August 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON 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

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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