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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cassandra vs. dBASE vs. Hive vs. RocksDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcassandra.apache.orgwww.dbase.comhive.apache.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookAsthon TateApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2008197920122013
Current release4.1.3, July 2023dBASE 2019, 20193.1.3, April 20229.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesno
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 indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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