DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud 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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.bigchaindb.com

blueflood.io

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

1989

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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