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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  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 dataWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgcassandra.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.claris.com/­filemaker
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookEsgynClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release20162012200820151983
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.3, July 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesyes infovia plugins
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetPHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
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.nononono
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 systemAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DruidCassandraEsgynDBFileMaker
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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