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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeTime 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
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablerealm.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsrealm.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAsthon TateGoogleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SiteWhere
Initial release20161979201520142010
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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