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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 BigTableScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhbase.apache.orgopentsdb.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSiteWhere
Initial release200820112010
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsoptions to bring your own types, AVROnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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