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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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 durabilityA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.comwww.graphengine.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2016201220102008
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, Clojure.NET and CJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM.NETLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningSharding
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
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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)optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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