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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. CouchDB vs. GBase vs. TimesTen

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 StorageA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162012200520041998
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3.3, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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