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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Lovefield

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational 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	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.bigchaindb.com

hsqldb.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Initial release

2016

2001

2014

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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