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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  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 assetsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsCloud 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 storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comwww.exasol.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaExasolFairCom CorporationGoogle
Initial release20162016200019792017
Current releaseV3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonANSI C, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access 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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