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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GridDB vs. HBase vs. jBASE

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecloud.google.com/­spannergriddb.nethbase.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.griddb.nethbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleToshiba CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20162017201320081991
Current release5.1, August 20222.3.4, January 20215.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampoptions to bring your own types, AVROoptional
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud DataflowConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID at container levelSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGoogle Cloud SpannerGridDBHBasejBASE
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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