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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PieCloudDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PieCloudDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessIn-memory caching systemCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecachelot.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.openpie.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OpenPie
Initial release2016201520122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.1, January 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIMemcached protocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsuser defined functions
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyesACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreCachelot.ioFirebase Realtime DatabasePieCloudDBPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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