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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

google.github.io/lovefield

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Google

quasardb

Initial release

1991

2014

2015

2009

Current release

5.7

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

yes

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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