DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SQream DB

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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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector 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	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.bigchaindb.com

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Amazon Web Services

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2005

2021

2017

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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