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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.h2database.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

google.github.io/lovefield

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Thomas Mueller

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Rockset

Initial release

2005

2016

2014

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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