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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. Graphite

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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

In-memory caching system

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Primary database model

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cachelot.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chris Davis

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2006

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Memcached protocol

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

locking

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

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