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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Alibaba

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

2013

Current release

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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