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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. HugeGraph vs. OrientDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. HugeGraph vs. OrientDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 StorageA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
orientdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationBaiduOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20162012201820102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.20.3, January 20230.93.2.29, March 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava, Javascriptuser defined functions
TriggersnononoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparkno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
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 sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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