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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 queriesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.singlestore.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SingleStore Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162015201020132019
Current release8.5, January 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, GoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnonoyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBigObjectIBM CloudantSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTDengine
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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