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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.gbase.cnopentsdb.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2016200420112015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data only
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.noyesnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesnono

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