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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. HarperDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. HarperDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelWide column storeNative XML DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebasex.orgcassandra.apache.orgwww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHarperDB
Initial release2016200720082017
Current release10.7, August 20234.1.3, July 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaNode.js
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infoJSON 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsmultiple readers, single writerno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and roles
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBaseXCassandraHarperDB
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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