DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. InfluxDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. InfluxDB vs. STSdb

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2013

2011

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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