DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. FatDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. FatDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SWC-DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

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

FatCloud

Amazon Web Services

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2005

2012

2021

2020

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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