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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeblueflood.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaRackspaceTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20162013200920052010
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTJCacheJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby using Terracotta ServerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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