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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebolt vs. GridDB vs. Heroic vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebolt vs. GridDB vs. Heroic vs. RDFox

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.firebolt.iogriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.firebolt.iodocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAlibabaFirebolt Analytics Inc.Toshiba CorporationSpotifyOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162020201320142017
Current release5.1, August 20226.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID at container levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRoles, resources, and access types
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreFireboltGridDBHeroicRDFox
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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