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

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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

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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

Score	0.35
Rank	#242	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	21.86
Rank	#30	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.91
Rank	#80	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

The Linux Foundation info

since July 2017

Initial release

2016

2013

2009

Current release

1.8.0, April 2020

2.4.0, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X info

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support info

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

community-supported driver
C# info

community-supported driver
C++ info

community-supported driver
Clojure info

community-supported driver
Dart info

community-supported driver
Erlang info

community-supported driver
Go info

community-supported driver
Haskell info

community-supported driver
Java info

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js) info

official driver
Lisp info

community-supported driver
Lua info

community-supported driver
Objective-C info

community-supported driver
Perl info

community-supported driver
PHP info

community-supported driver
Python info

official driver
Ruby info

official driver
Scala info

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

range based

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor info

in enterprise version only

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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