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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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

Apache 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, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

ignite.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon Web Services

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2015

2021

2019

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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