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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/google.github.io/­lovefieldwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAlibabaGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.GoogleMireo
Initial release20162007201720142020
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luanono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnonoyes

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