DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HarperDB vs. MongoDB vs. Tibero vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HarperDB vs. MongoDB vs. Tibero vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.harperdb.io

www.mongodb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Alibaba

HarperDB

MongoDB, Inc

TmaxSoft

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2017

2009

2003

2016

Current release

3.1, August 2021

6.0.7, June 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

C and Assembler

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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