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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Realm vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Realm vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 queriesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.iorealm.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iorealm.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162015201419982014
Current release11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryPL/SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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