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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Alibaba

IBM

Embarcadero

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2014

1984

2005

1998

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.4.2, February 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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