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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Memcached vs. NuoDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.memcached.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidoc.nuodb.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAlibabaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2016200320132014
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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