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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Couchbase vs. Hive vs. NuoDB vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.couchbase.comhive.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.couchbase.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedoc.nuodb.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCouchbase, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20142011201220132019
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20233.1.3, April 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++, Go and ErlangJavaC++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava, SQLno
Triggersyesyes infovia the TAP protocolnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic ShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoEphemeral bucketsyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.Access rights for users, groups and rolesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes
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AlaSQLCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseHiveNuoDBTDengine
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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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