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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cubrid vs. Infobright vs. PlanetScale vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

planetscale.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cubrid.org/manuals

planetscale.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

PlanetScale

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2008

2005

2020

1987

Current release

11.0, January 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID at shard level

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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