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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162012201020051987
Current releaseTransbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic 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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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