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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbrockset.comsql.js.orgwww.timescale.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.rockset.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.timescale.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaRocksetAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTimescaleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2019201220172001
Current release2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptCC
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportednoyesno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP RESTJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
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
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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