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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositoryfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAlibabaAtos Convergence CreatorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014FoundationDB
Initial release2016201620122013
Current release17036.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesno infosome layers support typing
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononosupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APILDAPAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages with LDAP bindingsJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'in SQL-layer only
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infocell divisionSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Linearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensLDAP bind authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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