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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.mcobject.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

McObject

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2016

2001

2010

2003

Current release

8.2, 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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.

yes

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)

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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