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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RethinkDB

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Name	Alibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison	RethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.	DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database model	Wide column store	Document store	Document store
Secondary database models			Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.38 Rank #261   Overall #11   Wide column stores	Score 9.25 Rank #52   Overall #10   Document stores	Score 3.06 Rank #101   Overall #19   Document stores
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-store	firebase.google.com/­products/­firestore	rethinkdb.com
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­product/­27278.htm	firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore	rethinkdb.com/­docs
Developer	Alibaba	Google	The Linux Foundation since July 2017
Initial release	2016	2017	2009
Current release			2.4.1, August 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	yes	no
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Implementation language			C++
Server operating systems	hosted	hosted	Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	Android gRPC (using protocol buffers) API iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Java Python	Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C Python	C community-supported driver C# community-supported driver C++ community-supported driver Clojure community-supported driver Dart community-supported driver Erlang community-supported driver Go community-supported driver Haskell community-supported driver Java official driver JavaScript (Node.js) official driver Lisp community-supported driver Lua community-supported driver Objective-C community-supported driver Perl community-supported driver PHP community-supported driver Python official driver Ruby official driver Scala community-supported driver
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggers	no	yes, with Cloud Functions	Client-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	Sharding range based
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	Using Cloud Dataflow	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic single-row operations	yes	Atomic single-document operations
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes MVCC based
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no
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.	yes users and table-level permissions
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