DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Brytlyt

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Brytlyt

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

brytlyt.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.brytlyt.io

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Brytlyt

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2016

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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