DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. eXtremeDB vs. GBase vs. MySQL vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. eXtremeDB vs. GBase vs. MySQL vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

McObject

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenPie

Initial release

2016

2001

2004

1995

Current release

8.2, 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.4.0, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning / sharding

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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