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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.greenplum.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaPivotal Software Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20052010
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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