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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. TDengine

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
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 StorageEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationGoogleHughes TechnologiesTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162012201419942019
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.1.12, February 20174.4, October 20213.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++JavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourcenonoyes
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DrillLovefieldmSQL infoMini SQLTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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