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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Netezza vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzarethinkdb.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAlibabaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2010200020092006
Current release2.4.1, August 20208.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
TriggersnoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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