DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

2017

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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