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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 StorageSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release20162012201520092010
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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