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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelWide column storeNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-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
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebasex.orggriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.orgdocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaBaseX GmbHToshiba CorporationSpotifyDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20162007201320142003
Current release10.7, August 20235.1, August 20221.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector 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 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 writerACID at container levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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 databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBaseXGridDBHeroicMemcached
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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