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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Druid vs. Databricks vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 dataThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storedruid.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.databricks.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsDatabricks
Initial release2016201220132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release29.0.1, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingwith Databricks SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreApache DruidDatabricksPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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