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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableCloud-based data warehousing serviceA multi-model DBMS and application serverSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storehbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.intersystems.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMInterSystemsAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20162008201419972008
Current release2.3.4, January 20212018.1.4, May 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaPL/SQL, SQL PLyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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