DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. searchxml vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. searchxml vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rethinkdb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon Web Services

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

informationpartners gmbh

Timescale

Initial release

2021

2009

2015

2017

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

1.0

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

users and table-level permissions

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

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