DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.gbase.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

10 R1, October 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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