DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cassandra vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cassandra vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

In-memory caching system

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cachelot.io

cassandra.apache.org

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2015

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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 managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users can be defined per object

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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