DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

bigobject.io

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Microsoft

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2015

2014

2015

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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