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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Drill vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 StorageBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedrill.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredrill.apache.org/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release201620122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release1.20.3, January 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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