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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. DataFS vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. DataFS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgnewdatabase.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsMobiland AG
Initial release20142016201220182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.1.263, October 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
WindowsLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL for queryingnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonono, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedProprietary Sharding systemhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemWindows-Profilefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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