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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.exasol.comwww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rockset.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAlibabaExasolGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.Rockset
Initial release20162000200720172019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial, open sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsdynamic typing
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.nonoyesnono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luano
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDnono
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
noAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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