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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database servicedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhive.apache.orgignite.apache.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.Apache Software Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012200920152011
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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