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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EventStoreDB vs. Informix vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent StoreRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.eventstore.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredevelopers.eventstore.cominformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
kairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAlibabaEvent Store LimitedIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Google
Initial release20162012198420132014
Current release21.2, February 202114.10.FC5, November 20201.2.2, November 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and JavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
TriggersnoyesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlssimple password-based access controlno

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