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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TDengine

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#324  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.63
Rank#116  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162015201520102019
Current release3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBigObjectCachelot.ioIBM CloudantTDengine
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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