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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Riak TS vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Riak TS vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatadocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocket SoftwareVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162017201519852010
Current release3.0.0, September 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnooptionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitedyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsErlangyesJava
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoU2 Basicno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesnoACID infoconfigurableACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
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.noAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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