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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA multi-model DBMS and application serverHigh performance Time Series DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachekx.comwww.postgres-xl.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.intersystems.comcode.kx.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcTobias Oetiker
Initial release19972000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1999
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.6, May 201810 R1, October 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageqCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.noyesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (q)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBInterSystems CachéKdbPostgres-XLRRDtool
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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