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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 durabilityScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.complanetscale.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.complanetscale.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectPlanetScaleSAP infoformerly SybaseMireo
Initial release20162012202019922020
Current release1.0.6735, June 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoproprietary syntaxyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubes
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
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID at shard levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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 developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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