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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Graph Engine vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.graphengine.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2010

1998

2014

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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