DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

surrealdb.com

www.timescale.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

surrealdb.com/docs

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alibaba

Alessandro Furieri

SurrealDB Ltd

Timescale

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2008

2022

2017

2009

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

v1.5.0, May 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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

yes

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

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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