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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.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 storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
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-storedb.apache.org/­derbywww.gbase.cnwww.geomesa.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.CCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20161997200420142008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c4.0.5, February 20242.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen 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 systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptions 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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal 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 serviceSource-replica replicationyesdepending 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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
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.noyesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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