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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. CouchDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. CouchDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeallegrograph.comdruid.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer
Initial release20162004201220052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release8.0, December 202329.0.1, April 20243.3.3, December 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageSQL for queryingnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAllegroGraphApache DruidCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"Postgres-XL
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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