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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 durabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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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
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCognitect
Initial release20162013201220142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.0.7075, December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoClojure
Java
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCC
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)yes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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