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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.monetdb.orgnsdb.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaMonetDB BVQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release200420172014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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