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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgalaxybase.comwww.gbase.cncloud.google.com/­spannergriddb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAlibabaChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司General Data Technology Co., Ltd.GoogleToshiba Corporation
Initial release2017200420172013
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and JavaC, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
C#Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud DataflowConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRole-based access controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per database
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBGalaxybaseGBaseGoogle Cloud SpannerGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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