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DBMS > RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. TempoIQ

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platformScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataTempoIQ
Initial release2013201420192012
Current release9.2.1, May 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoringyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyessimple authentication-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
RocksDBSnowflakeTDengineTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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