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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Yaacomo

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison	Yaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
				Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets	OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Wide column store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 4.04 Rank #77   Overall #6   Wide column stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables	yaacomo.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Alibaba	Google	Microsoft	Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release		2014	2012	2009
Current release		2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	hosted	Android Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST		RESTful HTTP API	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java	JavaScript	.Net C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no
Triggers	no	Using read-only observers	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	yes implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	optimistic locking	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes using MemoryDB	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no	Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure Table Storage	Yaacomo
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