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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. CouchDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebangdb.comblazegraph.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerTimescale
Initial release20162012200620052017
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 20193.3.3, December 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaErlangC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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