DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2003

1989

1999

Current release

12.1, October 2016

1.6.25, March 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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