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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. QuestDB vs. Realm

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.esgyn.cnwww.claris.com/­filemakerquestdb.iorealm.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationquestdb.io/­docsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaEsgynClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleQuestDB Technology IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162015198320142014
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infovia pluginsSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetPHPC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes
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