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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Lovefield vs. OceanBase vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

google.github.io/lovefield

en.oceanbase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Alibaba

Cambridge Semantics

Google

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2010

2020

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++
Java
Python

JavaScript

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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