DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. DolphinDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.dolphindb.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

DolphinDB, Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2013

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Administrators, Users, Groups

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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