DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

origodb.com

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Robert Friberg et al

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

2013

2009

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

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

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Write ahead log

yes

optional

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

Role based authorization

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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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