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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Alibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparison	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	LokiJS  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access	Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.	In-memory JavaScript DBMS	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Wide column store	Relational DBMS	Document store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.31 Rank #297   Overall #11   Wide column stores	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 0.49 Rank #260   Overall #42   Document stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-store	www.gbase.cn	github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestore		techfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Developer	Alibaba	General Data Technology Co., Ltd.		Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2016	2004	2014	1993
Current release		GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C, Java, Python	JavaScript
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.	no	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes via views	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	Standard with numerous extensions	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	JavaScript API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java Python	C#	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	user defined functions	View functions in JavaScript	yes
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	none	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic single-row operations	ACID	no atomic operations within a single collection possible	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens	yes	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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