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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sybase, SAPTimescale
Initial release20162012201019932017
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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