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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaserethinkdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162012200920181987
Current release2.4.1, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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