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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GridDB vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgriddb.netquasar.aiterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.griddb.netdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaToshiba CorporationquasardbDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201320092018
Current release5.1, August 20223.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBGridDBQuasardbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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