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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgecloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAltibaseFairCom CorporationFatCloudGoogle
Initial release20161999197920122017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Windowshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL-92yes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infowhen using SQLnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnoACID infoStrict serializable isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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