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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebird vs. H2GIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial extension of H2
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datastax.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAlibabaDataStaxFirebird FoundationCNRS
Initial release201620112000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013
Current release6.8, April 20205.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLyes infobased on H2
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on H2
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreDatastax EnterpriseFirebirdH2GIS
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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