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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Couchbase vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.couchbase.com

objectbox.io

www.teradata.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

docs.objectbox.io

docs.teradata.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Teradata

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2011

2017

1984

2003

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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