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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbrockset.comsphinxsearch.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release201920012018
Current release3.5.1, February 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingno
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 supportedno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP RESTProprietary protocolGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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