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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. dBASE vs. Drizzle vs. InfluxDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.dbase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release2016197920082013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20197.2.4, September 20122.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBCHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
dBase proprietary IDEC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple rights management via user accounts
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoredBASEDrizzleInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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