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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 CassandraCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument 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
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaRackspaceGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release20162016201320122014
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 indexesnonoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScript
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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