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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB vs. QuestDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessOracles in-memory data grid solutionA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceorigodb.comquestdb.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceorigodb.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaOracleRobert Friberg et alQuestDB Technology IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201620072009 infounder the name LiveDB20142001
Current release14.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Java
.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsconfigurableACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationRole based authorizationno
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreOracle CoherenceOrigoDBQuestDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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