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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. STSdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecouchdb.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSTS Soft SC
Initial release20162005200420082011
Current release3.3.3, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC, Java, PythonJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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