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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB vs. Vitess

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaRocksetByteDance, originally TerarkThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2013201920162013
Current release2.7.6, April 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingnoyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBInfluxDBRocksetTerarkDBVitess
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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