DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2014

2003

2010

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.25, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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