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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbignite.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablespostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.Microsoft
Initial release2015201720122005
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6V0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luanouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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