DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

machbase.com

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

machbase.com/dbms

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Machbase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

2014

2012

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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