DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

griddb.net

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.griddb.net

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Toshiba Corporation

Spotify

Embarcadero

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

1984

2021

Current release

5.1, August 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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