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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.splunk.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Splunk Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2010

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a document possible

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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