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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blueflood vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright

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Name	Alibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparison	Blueflood  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	Infobright  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access	Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database model	Wide column store	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.31 Rank #297   Overall #11   Wide column stores	Score 0.13 Rank #346   Overall #33   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.02 Rank #192   Overall #90   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-store	blueflood.io	www.hawkular.org	ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestore	github.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wiki	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer	Alibaba	Rackspace	Community supported by Red Hat	Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release	2016	2013	2014	2005
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	Java	C
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	predefined scheme	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	no	no Knowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	HTTP REST	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	Java Python		Go Java Python Ruby	.Net C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	no
Triggers	no	no	yes via Hawkular Alerting	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding based on Cassandra	Sharding based on Cassandra	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic single-row operations	no	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities
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