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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Bangdb vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 graphOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
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
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebangdb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bangdb.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaSachin Sinha, BangDBFoundationDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2016201220132010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20216.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infosome layers support typingno
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, geospatialnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolsupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes
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
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
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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)noAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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