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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. searchxml vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

informationpartners gmbh

STS Soft SC

Timescale

Initial release

2015

2011

2017

Current release

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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