DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Postgres-XL

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
Name	Alibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Firebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
		This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	In-memory caching system	Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database model	Wide column store	Document store Key-value store	Key-value store	Document store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models					Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.31 Rank #297   Overall #11   Wide column stores		Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 13.64 Rank #39   Overall #6   Document stores	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-store	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	cachelot.io	firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database	www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestore			firebase.google.com/­docs/­database	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer	Alibaba	Atos Convergence Creators		Google acquired by Google 2014
Initial release	2016	2016	2015	2012	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release		1703			10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial	Open Source Mozilla public license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	yes	no
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) Database as a Service Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation language		Java	C++		C
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	FreeBSD Linux OS X	hosted	Linux macOS
Data scheme	schema-free	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	optional	no	yes	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.	no	yes	no	no	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	no	yes distributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	LDAP	Memcached protocol	Android iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages	Java Python	All languages with LDAP bindings	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby	Java JavaScript Objective-C	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	limited functionality with using 'rules'	user defined functions
Triggers	no	yes	no	Callbacks are triggered when data changes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding cell division	none		horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	none	Eventual Consistency if the client is offline Immediate Consistency if the client is online	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic single-row operations	Atomic execution of specific operations	no	yes	ACID MVCC
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	no	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no		no
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens	LDAP bind authentication	no	yes, based on authentication and database rules	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information, and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.
Related products and services We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.
More resources
	Alibaba Cloud Table Store	Atos Standard Common Repository	Cachelot.io	Firebase Realtime Database	Postgres-XL
DB-Engines blog posts				Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates 12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon 16 April 2024, Datanami Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems 9 December 2020, CRN Top data analytics tools comparison: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM 5 December 2019, Wire19 Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon 19 April 2024, Datanami provided by Google News			Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go? 8 March 2024, Appinventiv Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat 18 January 2024, Atos Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase 18 March 2024, The Register Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations 19 March 2024, SC Media Hundreds of Google Firebase websites might have leaked data online 19 March 2024, TechRadar provided by Google News

Share this page