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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. CouchDB vs. Lovefield vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

couchdb.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Google

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2005

2014

2019

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

JavaScript

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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