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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. GigaSpaces

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionGraph DBMS
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcouchdb.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release2016201920052000
Current release3.3.3, December 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedhostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-99 for query and DML statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes, event driven architecture
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control

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