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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. GridGain

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecouchdb.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.esgyn.cnwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerElasticEsgynGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20162005201020152007
Current release3.3.3, December 20238.6, January 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++, JavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesJava Stored Proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesES-Hadoop Connectoryesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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