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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GreptimeDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#336	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.24
Rank	#163	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

greptime.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.greptime.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Greptime Inc.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2022

1998

Current release

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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