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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

boilerbay.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Alibaba

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Boiler Bay Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2010

2002

1993

Current release

4.0

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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 can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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