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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Infobright vs. OceanBase vs. ToroDB vs. Transbase

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

en.oceanbase.com

github.com/torodb/server

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alibaba

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

8Kdata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2005

2010

2016

1987

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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