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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InfinityDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

boilerbay.com

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Alibaba

Boiler Bay Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

Initial release

2002

2017

2014

Current release

4.0

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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