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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
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 graphDatomic 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.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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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
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebangdb.comwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bangdb.comdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Rockset
Initial release20162012201220122019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20211.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesyes
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ClojureC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesdynamic 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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)By using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
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 algorithmnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 modeyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes (enterprise version only)noyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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