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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AntDB vs. GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlgriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAlibabaAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedToshiba CorporationSpotifyEmbarcadero
Initial release2016201320141984
Current release5.1, August 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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.nononono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL2016 compliantSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID at container levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAntDBGridDBHeroicInterbase
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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