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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Memcached

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storehbase.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2016200819972003
Current release2.3.4, January 20212018.1.4, May 20201.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibledepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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