DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.39
Rank	#258	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.97
Rank	#41	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#304	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	7.04
Rank	#61	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	68.39
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

couchdb.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

www.singlestore.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

docs.singlestore.com

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

FairCom Corporation

SingleStore Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2005

1979

2013

1984

Current release

3.2.2, April 2022

V3, October 2020

7.6, November 2021

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

ANSI C, C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

via views

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 database

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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