DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cassandra.apache.org

machbase.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

machbase.com/dbms

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Machbase

Oracle

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2008

2013

2007

2012

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

V8.0, August 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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