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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. HyperSQL vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvhsqldb.orgprometheus.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apihsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCloudflareQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162018200120152014
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreCloudflare Workers KVHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBPrometheusQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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