DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Alibaba

Google

IBM

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

1983

host version

2013

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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