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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Derby vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Derby vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedb.apache.org/­derbywww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationFairCom CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2016199719792010
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users can be defined per database

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