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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.04
Rank#190  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.gbase.cnwww.postgres-xl.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAlibabaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current releaseGBase 8a10 R1, October 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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