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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. Ehcache

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. Ehcache

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.comwww.ehcache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AG
Initial release2016201220082009
Current release1.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 20123.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJCache
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Server
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resource
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approach
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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