DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. XTDB

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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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.bigchaindb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Transwarp

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2009

2019

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OpenCypher

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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