DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. PouchDB

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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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2014

2012

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

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