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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache IoTDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache IoTDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeiotdb.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncChris DavisIBM
Initial release20162018201820062014
Current release1.1.0, April 2023v2.00.4, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++Python
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Native API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)horizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesAdministrators, Users, Groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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