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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Rockset vs. XTDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 accessCloud 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.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeWide column storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrockset.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.rockset.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleMicrosoftRocksetJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162017201220192019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes, 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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnonono
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess 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 based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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