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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. Immudb vs. LMDB vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#307  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score2.33
Rank#118  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbhive.apache.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.immudb.iowww.lmdb.tech/­docquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCodenotarySymasQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2012202020112014
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.2.3, April 20220.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like syntaxnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
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.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBHiveImmudbLMDBQuestDB
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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