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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfluxDB vs. Infobright

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.23
Rank#324  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score3.33
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score15.07
Rank#38  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20162012201220132005
Current release29.0.0, February 20242.7.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyesnoACID
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.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities
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