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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. NSDb vs. PlanetScale vs. Sadas Engine

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

nsdb.io

planetscale.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

nsdb.io/Architecture

planetscale.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Alibaba

FatCloud

PlanetScale

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2020

2006

Current release

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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