DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. SpaceTime

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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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational 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	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

Softmotions

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

2020

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

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