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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kdb vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesHigh performance Time Series DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.21
Rank#304  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score6.79
Rank#50  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#115  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#79  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storekx.commaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storecode.kx.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaIBMKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Oracle
Initial release201620172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319842011
Current release2.03.6, May 20187.9.10.12, February 202424.4, December 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++qC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (q)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Typescript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreIBM Db2 Event StoreKdbMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOracle NoSQL
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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