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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.gigaspaces.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAlibabaGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20162000201720101991
Current release15.5, September 20205.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnooptional
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyes, event driven architecturenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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