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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#324  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score4.84
Rank#79  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score127.75
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score19.56
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2spark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaChris DavisIBMApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016201320061983 infohost version2014
Current release12.1, October 20163.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonC and C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
GoJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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