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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

hive.apache.org

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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