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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenEdge

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Application development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecouchdb.apache.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEnterpriseDBCCRi and othersProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20162005200520141984
Current release3.3.3, December 202314, December 20214.0.5, February 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangCScala
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangedepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers and groups

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