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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 PlatformSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcloud.google.com/­datastorepostgis.netrockset.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleRocksetSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2008200520192022
Current release3.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes, details hereyesdynamic typingyes
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.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App Engineuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyes, based on authentication and database rules

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