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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it 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 StorageHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgpostgis.nettrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162012201420052014
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.4.2, February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++Go
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDACID
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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