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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandradBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationRackspaceAsthon TateGoogle
Initial release20162012201319792015
Current release1.20.3, January 2023dBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.no
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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