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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alibaba

Actian Corporation

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2013

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Ingres Replicator

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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