DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.datomic.com

prometheus.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.datomic.com

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Cognitect

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2012

2015

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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