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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Kingbase vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#265	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.kingbase.com.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

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

Developer

Alibaba

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2016

1999

2014

2011

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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