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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DataFS vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#346	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#373	Overall
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#365	Overall
	#3	Event Stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

newdatabase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

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

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGNPV_2.0.0/welcome.html

Developer

Alibaba

Mobiland AG

IBM

Initial release

2016

2018

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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