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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DataFS vs. JaguarDB 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

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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

newdatabase.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

Mobiland AG

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2015

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

hosted

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

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

Windows-Profile

rights management via user accounts

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

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