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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. NuoDB vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 StorageAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdoc.nuodb.comdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationGoogleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20162012200820132017
Current release1.20.3, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query language (GQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsusing Google App EngineJava, SQLuser defined functions in Python
TriggersnonoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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 sourcenoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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