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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDBMS 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 serverA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbrethinkdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.timescale.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbrethinkdb.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.timescale.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017informationpartners gmbhTimescaleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2009201520172013
Current release2.4.1, August 20201.02.15.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes infousers and table-level permissionsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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