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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cassandra vs. GridDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cassandra.apache.org

griddb.net

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.griddb.net

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Toshiba Corporation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2008

2013

2003

2010

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.1, August 2022

1.6.27, May 2024

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID at container level

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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