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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. ToroDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orgnsdb.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAlibabaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BV8Kdata
Initial release20162010200420172016
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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