DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.progress.com/openedge

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Alibaba

Progress Software Corporation

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

1984

2014

2013

2019

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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 (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

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

ACID for single-table writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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