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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Alibaba

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

2013

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

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