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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Wide column store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#315	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#345	Overall
	#3	Event Stores
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.98
Rank	#109	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27278.htm

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGNPV_2.0.0/welcome.html

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2017

1993

Current release

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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