DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch

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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2015

2021

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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