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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.harperdb.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.harperdb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaHarperDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release201720101999
Current release3.1, August 2021V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageNode.jsErlangC and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyes infoJSON data typesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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