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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#361  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score31.26
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#237  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­55652.htmdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.kinetica.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaKinetica
Initial release20132012
Current release2.5.1, November 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBInfluxDBKinetica
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 25,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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