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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. Kdb vs. RethinkDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableHigh performance Time Series DBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhbase.apache.orgkx.comrethinkdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlcode.kx.comrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017TempoIQ
Initial release20082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320092012
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.6, May 20182.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaqC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infowith viewsClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACrights management via user accountsyes infousers and table-level permissionssimple authentication-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBHBaseKdbRethinkDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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