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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Titan

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 BigTableTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph 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
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2016200420082012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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