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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Faircom DB vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

FairCom Corporation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

1979

2009

2012

Current release

V12, November 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

no

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Erlang

no

Triggers

no

yes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

no

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

yes, using Riak Security

no

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