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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. CockroachDB vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. CockroachDB vs. FoundationDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 accessConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebangdb.comwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bangdb.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBCockroach LabsFoundationDB
Initial release2016201220152013
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202124.1.0, May 20246.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++GoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesno 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLsupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoin SQL-layer only
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
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 algorithmhorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
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 modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes (enterprise version only)Role-based access controlno

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