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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM
Initial release20162013198320042017
Current release1558519.4.1, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
PHPC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
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 serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokenssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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