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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.couchbase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.couchbase.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Alibaba

Couchbase, Inc.

Embarcadero

Initial release

2016

2013

2011

1984

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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