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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebigobject.iowww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationBigObject, Inc.CognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release20162013201520122012
Current release155851.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLuayes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnoyesnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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