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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS and big data platformA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.tdengine.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014TDEngine, previously Taos DataTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20152015201020192022
Current release3.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC
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
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
gRPC
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
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectCachelot.ioIBM CloudantTDengineTigris
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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