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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blueflood vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

blueflood.io

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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, 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

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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