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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Doris vs. Apache Drill vs. FoundationDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
drill.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidrill.apache.org/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduApache Software FoundationFoundationDB
Initial release20162017201220132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.2.2, February 20231.20.3, January 20236.2.28, November 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
MySQL client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC++.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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