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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelWide column storeNative XML DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebasex.orgwww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHCCRi and othersGoogleChris Davis
Initial release20162007201420152006
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScalaPython
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoNumeric data only
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonedepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonedepending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsmultiple readers, single writernoAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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