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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. GridGain

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#304	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.01
Rank	#180	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#156	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.mcobject.com

www.gridgain.com

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

McObject

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2001

2007

Current release

8.2, 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial, open source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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