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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. CouchDB vs. etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. CouchDB vs. etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed reliable key-value storeCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comcouchdb.apache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release2016199920052012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.3.3, December 20233.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ErlangGo
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsView functions in JavaScriptnolimited functionality with using 'rules'
Triggersnoyesyesyes, watching key changesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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