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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spatial extension of SQLiteA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsurrealdb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaTobias OetikerAlessandro FurieriSurrealDB LtdTimescale
Initial release1999200820222017
Current release1.8.0, 20225.0.0, August 2020v1.5.0, May 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++RustC
Server operating systemshostedHP-UX
Linux
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and StringsNumeric data onlyyesyesnumerics, 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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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