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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. HBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgreenplum.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.greenplum.orghbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsPivotal Software Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20162015201220052008
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
server-lessLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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