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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SC
Initial release2008201220142011
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnonoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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