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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

greptime.com

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Greptime Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2022

2010

2013

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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