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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Geode vs. HyperSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegeode.apache.orghsqldb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregeode.apache.org/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MireoTimescale
Initial release20162002200120202017
Current release1.1, February 20172.7.2, June 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava, SQLnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyes, on a single nodeACIDnoACID
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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