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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ehcache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alibaba

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FairCom Corporation

FatCloud

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2009

1979

2012

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

V3, October 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JCache

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

via applications

Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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