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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Tkrzw

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Name

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#322	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#333	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

bigobject.io

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

Alibaba

BigObject, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

2015

2020

Current release

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

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)

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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