DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2003

2007

2013

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

14.1, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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