DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

In-memory caching system

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Primary database model

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#272	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#139	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#149	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cachelot.io

www.dolphindb.com

www.foundationdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

www.dolphindb.com/help

apple.github.io/foundationdb

Developer

Alibaba

DolphinDB, Inc

FoundationDB

Initial release

2016

2015

2018

2013

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

6.2.28, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Memcached protocol

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Administrators, Users, Groups

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