DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BoltDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Snowflake

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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.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Chris Davis

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2006

1983

host version

2014

Current release

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

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

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

locking

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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