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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldopentsdb.netsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Googlecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSQream Technologies
Initial release20162010201420112017
Current release2.1.12, February 20172022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonouser defined functions in Python
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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