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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20162012201220151994
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023V116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, Clojure
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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