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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. NCache

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsElasticAlachisoft
Initial release20162012201220102005
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20248.6, January 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnononooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenoMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DrillApache DruidElasticsearchNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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