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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. DolphinDB vs. FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/splicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAlibabaDolphinDB, IncFoundationDBCirconus LLC.Splice Machine
Initial release20162018201320172014
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20226.2.28, November 2020V0.10.20, January 20183.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesin SQL-layer onlyyes, in Luayes infoJava
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAdministrators, Users, GroupsnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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