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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Riak KV

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 assetsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorebigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2016201620172009
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlang
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes, using Riak Security

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