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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20162013201220142014
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoClojure
Java
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnononono

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