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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. TDengine

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.83
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#116  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20152015201020112019
Current release3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectCachelot.ioIBM CloudantOpenTSDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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