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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. YDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Pivotal Software Inc.Yandex
Initial release20162012200520142019
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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