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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. EXASOL vs. InfluxDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 StorageMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgwww.exasol.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerExasol
Initial release20162012200820002013
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20122.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDno
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 sourceyesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DrillDrizzleEXASOLInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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