DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

Google

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

2016

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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