DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB 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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.mysql.com

rethinkdb.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

rethinkdb.com/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2016

2013

1995

2009

1999

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

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

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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