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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Kinetica vs. RisingWave vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Kinetica vs. RisingWave vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.kinetica.comwww.risingwave.com/­databaserockset.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.kinetica.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.rockset.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaKineticaRisingWave LabsRocksetTimescale
Initial release2012202220192017
Current release7.1, August 20211.2, September 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++RustC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsyesStandard SQL-types and JSONdynamic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javanouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers and RolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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