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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. jBASE vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk

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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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

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

nsdb.io

prometheus.io

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

prometheus.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1991

2017

2015

2003

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Scala

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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