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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Ehcache vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.ehcache.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

2009

2012

2005

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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