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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GridDB vs. Heroic vs. SurrealDB vs. VoltDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsurrealdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroicsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAlibabaToshiba CorporationSpotifySurrealDB LtdVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20162013201420222010
Current release5.1, August 2022v1.5.0, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaRustJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID at container levelnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGridDBHeroicSurrealDBVoltDB
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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