DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

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

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2014

2011

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Telnet API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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