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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

hbase.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

informationpartners gmbh

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

1998

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

on the application server

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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