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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB vs. Vitess vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB vs. Vitess vs. YottaDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 RocksDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbrockset.comwww.timescale.comvitess.ioyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.rockset.comdocs.timescale.comvitess.io/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaRocksetTimescaleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2019201720132001
Current release2.15.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CGoC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesno
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 supportedyesno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infowith proprietary extensionsby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser 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
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at shard leveloptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes 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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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