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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. NCache vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachepostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docspostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAlachisoft
Initial release200520052015
Current release5.3.3, April 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaCGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounteryesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes infobased on PostgreSQLno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBNCachePostGISPrometheus
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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