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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAlibabaChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatIBMEmbarcadero
Initial release20162006201420141984
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoPL/SQL, SQL PLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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