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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgbasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHElasticquasardb
Initial release20162012200720102009
Current release29.0.1, April 202410.7, August 20238.6, January 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoES-Hadoop Connectorwith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnomultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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