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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Postgres-XL

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.gbase.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Spotify

Initial release

2016

2004

2014

2001

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.2, June 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

user defined functions

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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