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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. GridDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. GridDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  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 queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebigobject.iowww.ehcache.orggriddb.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAlibabaBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGToshiba Corporation
Initial release2016201520092013
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreBigObjectEhcacheGridDB
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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