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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ToroDB

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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 MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

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Score	0.38
Rank	#261	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	18.48
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.torodb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.torodb.com/stampede/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2012

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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.

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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