DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CockroachDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CockroachDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Cockroach Labs

FairCom Corporation

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2015

1979

2010

2012

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

V3, October 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Role-based access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes

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