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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ToroDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 20148Kdata
Initial release20162016201220122016
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and roles

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