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

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#361	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.26
Rank	#51	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.93
Rank	#237	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.kinetica.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

Current release

3.4, August 2019

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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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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