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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Ingres vs. Riak TS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWell established RDBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleChris DavisActian CorporationOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2016201520061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2015
Current release11.2, May 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonCErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnononoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesErlang
Triggersnononoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes infoMVCCyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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