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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

google.github.io/lovefield

opentsdb.net

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2011

2000

Current release

2.0

2.1.12, February 2017

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active-active shard replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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