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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. GridGain

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelWide column storeEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredevelopers.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaEvent Store LimitedFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release201620122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042007
Current release21.2, February 20215.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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