DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. ClickHouse vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. ClickHouse vs. Hyprcubd vs. Memcached

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

clickhouse.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Clickhouse Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2016

2013

2016

2003

Current release

15585

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (https)

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

token access

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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