DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2022

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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