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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  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 serverAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityBased 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
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument 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
Score0.00
Rank#402  Overall
#41  Graph 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/­cachekuzudb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kuzudb.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAlibabaInterSystemsTobias Oetiker
Initial release199720222014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1999
Current release2018.1.4, May 20200.4.2, May 202410 R1, October 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT licenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
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.noyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
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++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
.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 proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes 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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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