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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Alibaba

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2016

2010

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

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