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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.
Initial release20162004200819842017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021InterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.noyesnono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in Lua
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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