DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. MariaDB vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. MariaDB vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

IBM

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2000

1984

2012

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

included in appliance

HP Open VMS

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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