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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Heroic

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeimpala.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Spotify
Initial release201620132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042014
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePSQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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