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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. Citus

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#123	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

bangdb.com

www.citusdata.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.bangdb.com

docs.citusdata.com

Developer

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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