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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. JaguarDB vs. QuestDB

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores
	#20	Vector DBMS

Score	3.12
Rank	#81	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.jaguardb.com

questdb.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Alibaba

DataJaguar, Inc.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

rights management via user accounts

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