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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessIn-memory caching systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecachelot.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBMCirconus LLC.
Initial release20162015200520142017
Current release3.3.3, December 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC and C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in Lua
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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