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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Altibase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

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

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

altibase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

boilerbay.com

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Alibaba

Altibase

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Boiler Bay Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2010

2002

2015

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.0

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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