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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasesql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2016201620122012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
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 proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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