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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 casesTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
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
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storetypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storetypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMVaticle
Initial release20161983200420172016
Current release19.4.1, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.02.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
PHPC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingno
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 replicationSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDnoACID
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.noyesno
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-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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