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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. GridDB vs. Heroic

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelWide column storeNative XML DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Key-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebasex.orgcassandra.apache.orggriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookToshiba CorporationSpotify
Initial release20162007200820132014
Current release10.7, August 20234.1.3, July 20235.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesConnector 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 Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsmultiple readers, single writerno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID at container levelno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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