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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.hawkular.orgquasar.aiquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonCommunity supported by Red HatquasardbQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162017201420092014
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTHTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAmazon NeptuneHawkular MetricsQuasardbQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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