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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhive.apache.orgorigodb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreapple.github.io/­foundationdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeorigodb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAlibabaFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookRobert Friberg et alSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2016201320122009 infounder the name LiveDB1992
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.1.3, April 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnononoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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