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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.gridgain.com

postgis.net

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alibaba

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2007

2005

2013

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple password-based access control

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