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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn embedded key-value store for Go.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cockroachlabs.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCockroach LabsGoogle
Initial release2016201320152015
Current release24.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication using RAFTInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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