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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Blazegraph vs. GBase vs. GeoMesa vs. HBase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeblazegraph.comwww.gbase.cnwww.geomesa.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewiki.blazegraph.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAlibabaBlazegraphGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.CCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20162006200420142008
Current release2.1.5, March 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c4.0.5, February 20242.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesoptions 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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