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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. PieCloudDB vs. Prometheus

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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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

www.openpie.com

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenPie

Initial release

2010

1991

2015

Current release

5.7

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

optional

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

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.

yes

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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