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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.49
Rank#79  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docskairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle
Initial release200820132005
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes, details hereyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App Enginenouser defined functions
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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