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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpatial extension of SQLiteA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbopentsdb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSAP, formerly SybaseAlessandro FurieriTimescale
Initial release2011199420082017
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20195.0.0, August 20202.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSAP/Sybase Replication ServernoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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