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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. StarRocks vs. XTDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2016201520202019
Current release2.5.3, March 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
MySQL protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
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 zonesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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)Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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