DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memcached vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memcached vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.memcached.org

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2003

2010

2014

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes, details here

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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