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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Galaxybase vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Galaxybase vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegalaxybase.comwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAlibabaChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Snowflake Computing Inc.ByteDance, originally TerarkQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162017201420162009
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyesnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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