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

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#361	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#237	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1163.94
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.kinetica.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/55652.htm

www.kinetica.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Kinetica

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2012

1995

Current release

7.1, August 2021

8.0.33, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantages

Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenarios

Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customers

Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metrics

The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing models

Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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