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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Ehcache vs. GridDB vs. InfinityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orggriddb.netboilerbay.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.griddb.netboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGToshiba CorporationBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20162013200920132002
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.10.0, March 20225.1, August 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID at container levelACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache ImpalaEhcacheGridDBInfinityDB
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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