DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Newts

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2004

2010

2017

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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