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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. PieCloudDB vs. VoltDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

basex.org

www.openpie.com

www.voltdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.basex.org

docs.voltdb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

OpenPie

VoltDB Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2007

2010

2019

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.1, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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