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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FileMaker vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMAlachisoft
Initial release20161983200420172005
Current release19.4.1, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.05.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
PHPC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesActive-active shard replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
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 tokenssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreFileMakerGBaseIBM Db2 Event StoreNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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