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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. MonetDB vs. Realm

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storehsqldb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.monetdb.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaMonetDB BVRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162001201320042014
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.7.5, January 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBInfluxDBMonetDBRealm
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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