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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. ReductStore vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.reduct.store/docs

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

ReductStore LLC

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

2023

2010

Current release

23.3, December 2023

1.9, March 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles

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