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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn embedded key-value store for Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaFoundationDBMicrosoft
Initial release20162013201320122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++C
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlynouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDoptimistic lockingACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 tokensnonoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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