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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Coveo vs. Kingbase vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.coveo.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.coveo.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Coveo

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Initial release

2012

1999

2003

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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