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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CockroachDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CockroachDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessCockroachDB 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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storesphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storesphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAlibabaCockroach LabsIBMSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release2016201520172001
Current release24.1.0, May 20242.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using RAFTActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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