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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Primary database model

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chris Davis

IBM

Initial release

2016

2013

2008

2006

1983

host version

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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