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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#298  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#73  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbpingcap.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaPingCAP, Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20162018
Current release8.2.0, July 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageGo, RustGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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