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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

drill.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

2012

1979

2012

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Depending on the underlying data source

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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