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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Blazegraph vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Blazegraph vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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 dataHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.datastax.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsBlazegraphDataStaxCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20162012200620112014
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.1.5, March 20196.8, April 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnononoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
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 systemSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per objectno
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DruidBlazegraphDatastax EnterpriseHawkular Metrics
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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