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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.iowww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iodocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Hypertable Inc.KineticaOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20162015200920121994
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 202118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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