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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Geode vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Spotify
Initial release20162019200220142005
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsAtomic single-document operationsyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definableyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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