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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Firestore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory caching systemCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iocachelot.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaRackspaceGoogle
Initial release20162016201320152017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTMemcached protocolAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersnononoyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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